My argument is that it must not be advertised as a softener or give any implication that it does what a softener does. Misleading advertising is inappropriate at best and false advertising is fraudulent at worst. This item is often labeled as a filter/softener.
The media is NFS certified against Standard 61, which means that the media adds nothing to the drinking water that would cause adverse health effects. It states nothing concerning the water production or quality.
It is also listed as an ion exchange media. This means it is one of three things: an anion media, a cation media, or a mixed bed media (which I doubt). All resin media, whether cation or anion need to be regenerated or replaced in order to do the job, which is to exchange positively or negatively charged ions for the oppositely charges ions at varying rates and durations.
If the exchange media doesn’t have a means to ‘cleanse’ itself, then it becomes exhausted and must be replaced. Furthermore, I not am unaware of an exchange media that matches the claims of scale build up in piping that Pelican advertises. I would love to learn how these claims are justified.
A” 90-day-money-back” may be just enough time before the owner realizes the effectiveness the investment. The 600,000-gallon tag that this is what the media is ‘designed’ to do, is a long way from any assurance that it actually will last that long. I can’t imagine how difficult to get your money back if not satisfied. I ma sure there are hurdles to jump before that would happen. Who knows?
Still further, any water treatment company that supplies so little actual information concerning the technology needs to be investigated before any investment is set forth.
The seller/manufacturer has no awareness of the actual water quality or the customers’ usage and so any claim must be taken as a panacea and that is very risky. All water treatment sellers must have at least an understanding of the objectives for which a system is to be used.
I hope you have success with your purchase but I wouldn’t change my views on this particular product primarily because of the lack of technical information, methods of advertising and lack of qualifications.
Good luck with your decision.
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